Max Jones, known affectionately as "the Boswell of bebop" (Time Out), was famed in England for nearly four decades of insightful, ardent writing on jazz. With this luminous collection of interviews, his work will at last be widely accessible to American readers. Here are the voices of jazz—Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Billie Holiday, and Mary Lou Williams, to name but a few—in conversation with Jones, who could turn a casual chat into an indelible portrait and who gives American readers a view of these musicians they have never had before.
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"Nobody else has so enthusiastically combined affection with expertise." -- New Statesman
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Max Jones (1920–1993) wrote and broadcast about jazz from 1942 to his death. In the 1940s he co-founded Jazz Music, and he was the principal jazz contributor to the British magazine Melody Maker for forty years.
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New Orleans, New York, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Melody Maker, Billie Holiday, Kansas City, Bud Freeman, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, King Oliver, Eddie Condon, Ronnie Scott, Los Angeles, Coleman Hawkins, Edmond Hall, Jack Teagarden, Joe Oliver, Sarah Vaughan, Teddy Wilson, Tommy Dorsey, Barney Bigard, Lady Day New!
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- Bessie Smith by P. Oliver on page 34, page 42, and page 221
- Bix Beiderbecke by B. James on page 34, and page 38
- Jack Teagarden: The Story Of A Jazz Maverick (Da Capo Paperback) by Jay Smith on page 145, and page 197
- Duke Ellington: Music Is My Mistress by Duke Ellington on page 9
- Duke Ellington (The Roots of jazz) by Barry Ulanov on page 9
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